Koch Industries

Manufacturing Engineer

Koch Industries • $95K — $115K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • 5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience
  • Experience leading manufacturing engineering workstreams
  • Experience in developing, implementing, or optimizing manufacturing processes
  • Experience with engineering documentation and root cause analysis
  • Proficient in 3D modeling software (Solidworks preferred)

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement manufacturing processes and standard operating procedures
  • Design and support work cells and manufacturing layouts
  • Conduct time studies and labor analysis
  • Own manufacturing engineering deliverables for assigned projects
  • Participate in cross-functional project teams
  • Drive issue resolution during builds and production ramp-ups
  • Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in manufacturing processes

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement savings plan
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Potential for infertility assistance and paid parental leave
Full Job Description
Your Job

As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will independently lead manufacturing engineering deliverables supporting New Product Introduction, product transfers, validation activities, and ongoing manufacturing operations. You will develop and improve manufacturing processes while helping drive projects from process development through manufacturing readiness.

What You Will Do

Manufacturing Process Development
  • Develop and implement manufacturing processes, work instructions, routers, process flows, and standard operating procedures.
  • Design and support work cells, manufacturing layouts, tooling, fixtures, and equipment improvements.
  • Conduct time studies, labor analysis, line balancing, and capacity assessments.
  • Support manufacturing readiness activities for NPI and product transfer projects.


Project Execution
  • Independently own manufacturing engineering deliverables for assigned projects and workstreams.
  • Participate in cross-functional project teams to ensure successful product launches and transfers.
  • Maintain project status, identify risks, develop mitigation plans, and support stage-gate deliverables.
  • Drive issue resolution and provide technical support during builds, validations, and production ramp-ups.

Validation & Quality Support
  • Support IQ, OQ, PQ, and other validation activities as required.
  • Participate in PFMEA development, risk assessments, engineering studies, and investigation activities.
  • Conduct root cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions.
  • Ensure manufacturing processes comply with quality systems and regulatory requirements.

Continuous Improvement
  • Identify opportunities to improve safety, quality, delivery, and cost performance.
  • Lead process optimization efforts to improve yield, reduce scrap, reduce cycle times, and increase productivity.
  • Support Lean Manufacturing and Operational Excellence initiatives.
  • Value Stream Mapping.

Training & Collaboration
  • Train production personnel, technicians, and support staff on new processes and standard work.
  • Coordinate with suppliers, equipment vendors, and internal stakeholders during implementation activities.
  • Provide technical guidance to manufacturing technicians and production teams.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering
  • 5+ years of manufacturing engineering experience
  • Experience independently leading manufacturing engineering workstreams or deliverables
  • Experience developing, implementing, or optimizing manufacturing processes
  • Experience with engineering documentation, change control, root cause analysis, process validation, or risk management
  • Experience using 3D modeling software (Solidworks Preferred)


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering
  • Experience in medical device, regulated manufacturing, or highly controlled production environments
  • Experience with overmolding, injection molding, or cable harness manufacturing
  • Experience with automation equipment or fixture development
  • Experience supporting cleanroom manufacturing environments
  • Experience with Lean Manufacturing or Six Sigma methodologies
  • Experience with IQ, OQ, and PQ process validation
  • Experience supporting New Product Introduction or product transfers


This role is not eligible for VISA Sponsorship.

For this role, we anticipate paying $95,000 - $115,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

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About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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